In summer, many people often eat spinach at home. Water spinach is a kind of vegetable that people often eat. The stems and leaves of water spinach are edible and have high nutritional value. You can eat often, but you can't eat too much. Eating too much may cause some physical discomfort. Why can't you eat more water spinach? What happens when you eat too much water spinach?

1, why not eat more?

Although water spinach is nutritious, it also has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and diuresis, and relaxing bowels. However, water spinach is a cool vegetable. If you eat too much, it may have a certain impact on the human body.

2. What happens if you eat too much spinach?

(1) causes cramps.

Judging from the nature and taste of food, water spinach belongs to cold vegetables. For people with weak constitution, eating more spinach may cause leg cramps. It is suggested that people who are afraid of cold and lack of calcium should eat less water spinach.

(2) Causing diarrhea

Spinach is cold. For people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, eating too much spinach may cause diarrhea.

3. How much spinach is appropriate?

It is more appropriate to eat 50 grams of water spinach a day.

In fact, we need to control our daily food intake, and it will be better for us to control our diet reasonably. We can't eat more cold vegetables like spinach, just eat about 50 grams a day.

4. Precautions for eating spinach

1, when eating water spinach, it is not suitable to eat with shrimp milk. Oxalic acid contained in water spinach will react with calcium in milk and shrimp, affecting the absorption of calcium, and may also cause vomiting, dizziness, nausea and other physical discomfort.

2, spinach should not be eaten with cold food, spinach itself is a cold vegetable, and then eat with cold food, the body will have abdominal pain, diarrhea and other problems, but also aggravate the coldness in the body.

3. Try to eat cooked spinach, not raw. Oxalic acid contained in raw water spinach will affect the body's absorption of calcium, which is not conducive to health.

4. People with weak constitution, spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea are not suitable for eating water spinach. Because spinach is cold and slippery, eating it will aggravate the cold in the body and make the stool more shapeless.

People with low blood pressure, paralysis of hands and feet or cramps are not suitable for eating more water spinach. Because spinach is cold, and HIA can lower blood sugar and blood pressure.

5. Who is not suitable for eating water spinach?

Water spinach is an alkaline food, which contains potassium, chlorine and other elements to adjust the water-liquid balance. After eating, it can reduce intestinal acidity, prevent intestinal flora imbalance, and help prevent cancer. However, water spinach belongs to cold food, so people with weak constitution, spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea should not eat more, and people with low blood pressure and hands and feet prone to paralysis or cramps for no reason should not eat more.